Lu Xiaotian was greatly startled as well. Several utterly hoarse howls came from deep underground.
Above their heads, the nameless towering trees that had stood motionless along one side of the ancient Green Plank Road uprooted themselves. Thick branches lashed down directly, while enormous blue roots pulled from beneath the rocks cracked through the air like the long whips of a giant deity, leaving afterimages as they swept toward the fleeing cultivators and the countless Underworld Winged Wolf Beasts.
"Blue Vine Tree Spirits!" Everyone sucked in a cold breath. A single Blue Vine Tree Spirit was not terrifying. Though nearly a hundred zhang tall and possessed of boundless strength, its intelligence ultimately fell short of that of human cultivators. What truly terrified them were the Blue Vine Tree Spirits already rioting on both sides of the ancient Green Plank Road.
These tree spirits towered into the sky and possessed immense strength. As spiritwood beings, they felt no pain at all. For a tree to live long enough to become a spirit, who knew how many years it had been nurtured on this island before reaching its current scale? No wonder the spiritual energy here was so dense, yet the number of demon beasts was far fewer than elsewhere. Of course, the Underworld Winged Wolf Beasts mainly dwelled underground, so their living space did not clash with that of the Blue Vine Tree Spirits. Otherwise, the two likely could not have coexisted. But now that the Underworld Winged Wolf Beasts had burst forth, more and more Blue Vine Tree Spirits were stirred into action. Massive blue roots lashed out from the rocks, writhing swiftly across the ground as they charged toward the place where the cultivators and Underworld Winged Wolf Beasts clashed.
Whether they were Underworld Winged Wolf Beasts or human